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YouTube actor network is supplemented with additional downloaded video information. Adds video id, title, description and publish time as edge attributes. Nodes or actor references to video id's in the network are substituted with the actor id (video channel id) retrieved from the video details.

Usage

# S3 method for class 'actor.youtube'
AddVideoData(
  net,
  youtubeAuth = NULL,
  videoIds = NULL,
  actorSubOnly = FALSE,
  ...,
  writeToFile = FALSE,
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

net

A named list of dataframes nodes and edges generated by Create.

youtubeAuth

YouTube Authenticate object.

videoIds

List. Video id's for which to download video information.

actorSubOnly

Logical. Only substitute video id's for their publishers channel id. Don't add additional video data to edge list.

...

Additional parameters passed to function.

writeToFile

Logical. Write data to file. Default is FALSE.

verbose

Logical. Output additional information. Default is TRUE.

Value

Network as a named list of three dataframes containing $nodes, $edges and $videos nodes and edges include columns for additional video data.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# replace video id references with actors and add video id, title, description and plublish time
# to an actor network
actorNetwork <- collectData |> Create("actor") |> AddVideoData(youtubeAuth)

# only replace video id references with actors that published videos in network
actorNetwork <- collectData |> Create("actor") |> AddVideoData(youtubeAuth, actorSubOnly = TRUE)

# network
# actorNetwork$nodes
# actorNetwork$edges

# dataframe of downloaded video data
# actorNetwork$videos
} # }